My name is Christopher Palmer and I am a languages practitioner. I am now in my sixteenth year of teacher and I have a wealth of experience of liaising with the standard EdExcel GCSE French, Cambridge International GCSE French, EdExcel A-Level French, beginner's Mandarin courses and I am starting to become acquainted with IB French. I have published a vast array of resources which span Key Stage 2-5.
My name is Christopher Palmer and I am a languages practitioner. I am now in my sixteenth year of teacher and I have a wealth of experience of liaising with the standard EdExcel GCSE French, Cambridge International GCSE French, EdExcel A-Level French, beginner's Mandarin courses and I am starting to become acquainted with IB French. I have published a vast array of resources which span Key Stage 2-5.
Welcome to the second installment of a specialised curriculum for learners with SEN who are significantly struggling with French or learners who have joined your class late into the academic year, who have no knowledge of French at all.
This resource looks at the first part of Unit 1: Greetings, which is on focused on ‘Comment t’appelles-tu’ and ‘Je m’appelle …’
The students look at the vocabulary list and then read the cartoons, followed by questioning on the cartoons. They then can draw a cartoon strip based on what they have learnt.
I will be installing additional episodes of this specialised curriculum. Please do keep an eye out for them.
Happy teaching and learning!
This resource exclusively looks at basic prepositions such as ‘sur’, ‘sous’ and ‘dans’. I have also included more complex material for more able students such as ‘a côté de’, ‘au fond de’ and ‘en face de’. This is ideal for teachers following Tricolore book 1.
Present the vocabulary and also the more complex prepositions to the more able students or the gifted and talented. There are also subsequent questions which follow which reinforces what the students have learnt.
On the last two slides, get the students to copy out the new vocabulary and then they can start the supplementary work if other students haven’t yet finished. On the next slide, the students can choose whichever level work they feel the most comfortable with.
Happy teaching and learning!
Welcome to the fourth installment of a specialised curriculum for learners with SEN who are significantly struggling with French or learners who have joined your class late into the academic year, who have no knowledge of French at all.
This resource looks at the fourth part of Unit 1: Greetings, which is on focused on ‘Tu es de quelle nationalité?’ and ‘Il/Elle est …’, as well as various nationalities in French
The students look at the vocabulary list and then read the cartoons, followed by questioning on the cartoons. They then can draw a cartoon strip based on what they have learnt.
I will be installing additional episodes of this specialised curriculum. Please do keep an eye out for them.
Happy teaching and learning!
Hello and welcome to the eleventh installment of introducing numbers at primary Key Stage 1 level.
Because of the students’ very young ages, it is recommended to gradually introduce the numbers to them session by session.
This resource introduces the number 12 to them in French.
Go through the powerpoint with them introducing the numbers to them and get them to say how many shapes there are on the slides.
There is a subsequent differentiated workbook for the students to colour in and complete with some French mathematics! You can assign whichever level workbook to the students depending on how comfortable they feel with that level or whether or not they are able. The level 2 workbook focuses on more complex questions and mathematical sums such as multiplications and divisions, whereas the level 1 workbook does not.
There is also a wordsearch. Get the students to find the words ‘un’, ‘deux’, ‘trois’, ‘quatre’, ‘cinq’ , ‘six’, ‘sept’, ‘huit’, ‘neuf’, ‘dix’, ‘onze’ and ‘douze’
Also, do keep an eye out for the subsequent numbers 13-20.
Happy teaching and learning!
This resource explicitly explores the use of the passive voice in the past, which is introduced towards the end of the IGCSE programme and prepares students for the A-Level programme.
In this resource, get students to look at the differences between the active voice and the passive voice on slides 2-10.
Next, get the students to read the speech bubbles in the cartoons and after each example, get them to answer the questions using both the active and the passive voice. Feel free to provide extra support for those who are less able.
After the story, get the students to practise forming the passive voice by conjugating the sample verb ‘etre vu’ and then they can select any activity that they feel most comfortable with. I would recommend the gifted and talented to attempt activity 4, whereas the less able students should attempt activity 1.
Happy teaching and learning!
This resource looks at pets and animals in French and also how to describe them.
First of all, present the pets and animals to the class, going over the pronunciation and then play the memory game with them.
Get the students to read the slides and then answer the follow up questions.
Complete the follow-up activities by choosing a level that they feel most comfortable with.
Happy teaching and learning!
This resource explicitly explores the use of the passive voice in the present tense which is introduced towards the end of the IGCSE programme and prepares students for the A-Level programme.
In this resource, get students to look at the differences between the active voice and the passive voice on slides 2-10.
Next, get the students to read the speech bubbles in the cartoons and after each example, get them to answer the questions using both the active and the passive voice. Feel free to provide extra support for those who are less able.
After the story, get the students to practise forming the passive voice by conjugating the sample verb ‘etre observé’ and then they can select any activity that they feel most comfortable with. I would recommend the gifted and talented to attempt activity 4, whereas the less able students should attempt activity 1.
Happy teaching and learning!
Welcome to the third installment of months of the year, weather and seasons.
This resource is geared towards learners of Key Stage 2 level and it focuses on the month of March and associated weather and season.
Present the numbers from 1-31 in French first of all and then ask the children if their birthday is in March. Ensure you tell the students that the first of the month is ‘le premier’. Ask them the question, ‘c’est quand, ton anniversaire’. Encourage them to reply ‘mon anniversaire, c’est le ____ mars’
Present the story and vocabulary to them. They are also available in the workbooks. The children can look at their workbooks as the story is presented on the board. If there are gifted and talented students in the class or native French speakers, present the more complex vocabulary to them which is ‘il fait un beau temps’ / ‘il est venteux’.
Get the students to complete the classwork such as the mix and match activity and the listening activity. When completing the listening activity, be sure to alternate between the lower level and the higher level questions. Next, the students can colour in the spring picture in their workbook and then cut out the pictures and the labels from the sheet overleaf and label the colouring in sheet by sticking the correct pictures and labels together.
Play the quiz with the students. There are differentiated levels on the quiz and each student should select which level they feel most comfortable with.
There is also a differentiated homework in the workbook available.
Happy teaching and learning.
Thank you very much for taking your time to look at this wonderful bundle!
This bundle contains the first four installments containing the months of the year, weather and seasons for January, February, March and April, aimed at Key Stage 2 level.
The vocabulary contained in this pack is widely diverse and well differentiated and there are a wide range of resources available, such as colouring in worksheets, cutting and sticking activities, homework sheets, powerpoints and wordsearchs.
The vocabulary contained in this pack is as follows:
January: Il fait froid, il neige, il fait mauvais, l’hiver
Differentiation: Il est neigeux
February: Il fait froid, il y a du gel, il neige, il fait mauvais, l’hiver
March: Il fait beau, il fait du vent, il fait plus chaud, le printemps
Differentiation: Il est venteux, il commence a faire chaud, il fait un beau temps
April: Il pleut, il fait doux, il y a un arc-en-ciel, le printemps
Differentiation: Il est pluvieux
There will be more resources uploaded shortly for the subsequent months of the year as well as more bundles. Keep an eye out for them!
Happy teaching and learning!
This resource uniquely looks at numbers in the 40s in French.
Go through the powerpoint with the children, looking at the numbers which all start with ‘quarante-’. Re-iterate to the children that numbers which contain a ‘1’ in the units, all have the word ‘et’ in the middle of the word.
This resource also looks at expressing age and the difference between ‘tu’ or ‘vous’. The lower level looks at numbers, age and ‘tu’ or ‘vous’. The higher level looks at the years when people were born in as well as numbers, age, extended use of ‘tu’ or ‘vous’ and adjectival agreement. There is also extra more complex material for the more able students and in particular, the gifted and talented as it also explores as to whether one is in their early, mid or late fourties. If there are gifted and talented learners or native French speaking learners present in the class, go through the higher level material with them. There is a differentiated follow-up quiz. Play the quiz with the students.
After the presentation of the numbers, get the students to copy out the numbers in the attached assigned workbook and then complete the listening activity. If there is time in the lesson, get the learners to complete the subsequent activities such as filling out the speech bubbles while selecting the correct answer. For the higher level activity, assume the year is 2020 as that is when the workbook was created.
For homework, the children can complete the mathematical questions.
As a plenary, play the picture pair game with them.
I will be uploading more resources for numbers in the 50, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and 100s. Feel free to look out for them!
Happy teaching and learning!
Thank you very much for taking your time to look at this wonderful bundle!
This bundle contains the eight installments containing the months of the year, weather and seasons for January, February, March, April, May, June, July and August aimed at Key Stage 2 level.
The vocabulary contained in this pack is widely diverse and well differentiated and there are a wide range of resources available, such as colouring in worksheets, cutting and sticking activities, homework sheets and powerpoints.
The vocabulary contained in this pack is as follows:
January: Il fait froid, il neige, il fait mauvais, l’hiver
Differentiation: Il est neigeux
February: Il fait froid, il y a du gel, il neige, il fait mauvais, l’hiver
March: Il fait beau, il fait du vent, il fait plus chaud, le printemps
Differentiation: Il est venteux, il commence a faire chaud, il fait un beau temps
April: Il pleut, il fait doux, il y a un arc-en-ciel, le printemps
Differentiation: Il est pluvieux
May: le printemps, il fait très doux, il fait du soleil, il fait un temps superb.
Differentiation: Il ne fait plus froid, il fait un très beau temps, Il est ensoleillé
June: l’été, il fait chaud, il y a du foudre, il fait du soleil
Differentiation: Il y a du tonnerre, Il est ensoleillé
July: l’été, il fait très chaud, il fait un temps superb, il fait du soleil
Differentiation: Il est ensoleillé, il fait un très beau temps, il fait énormément, le ciel est tout bleu
August: l’été, il fait très chaud, il fait un temps superb, il fait du soleil
Differentiation: Il est ensoleillé, il fait un très beau temps, il fait énormément, il y a une secheresse
There will be more resources uploaded shortly for the subsequent months of the year as well as more bundles. Keep an eye out for them!
Happy teaching and learning!
Welcome to the eighth installment of months of the year, weather and seasons. This resource is geared towards learners of Key Stage 2 level and it focuses on the month of August and associated weather and season.
Present the numbers from 1-31 in French first of all and then ask the children if their birthday is in August. Ensure you tell the students that the first of the month is ‘le premier’. Ask them the question, ‘c’est quand, ton anniversaire’. Encourage them to reply ‘mon anniversaire, c’est le ____ août’.
Present the story and vocabulary to them. They are also available in the workbooks. The children can look at their workbooks as the story is presented on the board. If there are gifted and talented students in the class or native French speakers, present the more complex vocabulary to them which is ‘il est ensoleillé’, ‘il fait énormément chaud’, ‘il y a une sécheresse’, etc.
Get the students to complete the classwork such as the mix and match activity and the listening activity. When completing the listening activity, be sure to alternate between the lower level and the higher level questions. Next, the students can colour in the summer picture in their workbook and then cut out the pictures and the labels from the sheet overleaf and label the colouring in sheet by sticking the correct pictures and labels together.
Play the quiz with the students. There are differentiated levels on the quiz and each student should select which level they feel most comfortable with.
There is also differentiated homework which revises the weather vocabulary from January to August.
Happy teaching and learning!
Welcome to the sixth installment of months of the year, weather and seasons.
This resource is geared towards learners of Key Stage 2 level and it focuses on the month of June and associated weather and season.
Present the numbers from 1-30 in French first of all and then ask the children if their birthday is in June. Ensure you tell the students that the first of the month is ‘le premier’. Ask them the question, ‘c’est quand, ton anniversaire’. Encourage them to reply ‘mon anniversaire, c’est le ____ juin’.
Present the story and vocabulary to them. They are also available in the workbooks. The children can look at their workbooks as the story is presented on the board. If there are gifted and talented students in the class or native French speakers, present the more complex vocabulary to them which is ‘il est ensoleillé’, ‘il y a du tonnerre’, etc.
Get the students to complete the classwork such as the mix and match activity and the listening activity. When completing the listening activity, be sure to alternate between the lower level and the higher level questions. Next, the students can colour in the summer picture in their workbook and then cut out the pictures and the labels from the sheet overleaf and label the colouring in sheet by sticking the correct pictures and labels together.
Play the quiz with the students. There are differentiated levels on the quiz and each student should select which level they feel most comfortable with.
There is also a differentiated homework in the workbook available.
Happy teaching and learning.
Welcome to the fifth installment of months of the year, weather and seasons.
This resource is geared towards learners of Key Stage 2 level and it focuses on the month of May and associated weather and season.
Present the numbers from 1-31 in French first of all and then ask the children if their birthday is in May. Ensure you tell the students that the first of the month is ‘le premier’. Ask them the question, ‘c’est quand, ton anniversaire’. Encourage them to reply ‘mon anniversaire, c’est le ____ mai’
Present the story and vocabulary to them. They are also available in the workbooks. The children can look at their workbooks as the story is presented on the board. If there are gifted and talented students in the class or native French speakers, present the more complex vocabulary to them which is ‘il est ensoleillé / il fait un très beau temps’.
Get the students to complete the classwork such as the mix and match activity and the listening activity. When completing the listening activity, be sure to alternate between the lower level and the higher level questions. Next, the students can colour in the spring picture in their workbook and then cut out the pictures and the labels from the sheet overleaf and label the colouring in sheet by sticking the correct pictures and labels together.
Play the quiz with the students. There are differentiated levels on the quiz and each student should select which level they feel most comfortable with.
There is also a differentiated homework in the workbook available.
Happy teaching and learning.
Welcome to the first installment of months of the year, weather and seasons.
This resource is geared towards learners of Key Stage 2 level and it focuses on the month of January and associated weather and season.
Present the numbers from 1-31 in French first of all and then ask the children if their birthday is in January. Ensure you tell the students that the first of the month is ‘le premier’. Ask them the question, ‘c’est quand, ton anniversaire’. Encourage them to reply ‘mon anniversaire, c’est le ____ janvier’
Present the story and vocabulary to them. They are also available in the workbooks. The children can look at their workbooks as the story is presented on the board. If there are gifted and talented students in the class or native French speakers, present the more complex vocabulary to them which is ‘il est neigeux’.
Get the students to complete the classwork such as the mix and match activity and the listening activity. When completing the listening activity, be sure to alternate between the lower level and the higher level questions. Next, the students can colour in the winter picture in their workbook and then cut out the pictures and the labels from the sheet overleaf and label the colouring in sheet by sticking the correct pictures and labels together.
Play the quiz with the students. There are differentiated levels on the quiz and each student should select which level they feel most comfortable with.
There is also a differentiated homework in the workbook available.
Happy teaching and learning.
Welcome to the second installment of months of the year, weather and seasons.
This resource is geared towards learners of Key Stage 2 level and it focuses on the month of February and associated weather and season.
Present the numbers from 1-29 in French first of all and then ask the children if their birthday is in February. Ensure you tell the students that the first of the month is ‘le premier’. Ask them the question, ‘c’est quand, ton anniversaire’. Encourage them to reply ‘mon anniversaire, c’est le ____ février’
Present the story and vocabulary to them. They are also available in the workbooks. The children can look at their workbooks as the story is presented on the board. If there are gifted and talented students in the class or native French speakers, present the more complex vocabulary to them which is ‘il fait un mauvais temps’ / ‘il est neigeux’.
Get the students to complete the classwork such as the mix and match activity and the listening activity. When completing the listening activity, be sure to alternate between the lower level and the higher level questions. Next, the students can colour in the winter picture in their workbook and then cut out the pictures and the labels from the sheet overleaf and label the colouring in sheet by sticking the correct pictures and labels together.
Play the quiz with the students. There are differentiated levels on the quiz and each student should select which level they feel most comfortable with.
There is also a differentiated homework in the workbook available.
Happy teaching and learning.
Welcome to the fourth installment of months of the year, weather and seasons.
This resource is geared towards learners of Key Stage 2 level and it focuses on the month of April and associated weather and season.
Present the numbers from 1-30 in French first of all and then ask the children if their birthday is in March. Ensure you tell the students that the first of the month is ‘le premier’. Ask them the question, ‘c’est quand, ton anniversaire’. Encourage them to reply ‘mon anniversaire, c’est le ____ avril’
Present the story and vocabulary to them. They are also available in the workbooks. The children can look at their workbooks as the story is presented on the board. If there are gifted and talented students in the class or native French speakers, present the more complex vocabulary to them which is ‘il est pluvieux’.
Get the students to complete the classwork such as the mix and match activity and the listening activity. When completing the listening activity, be sure to alternate between the lower level and the higher level questions. Next, the students can colour in the spring picture in their workbook and then cut out the pictures and the labels from the sheet overleaf and label the colouring in sheet by sticking the correct pictures and labels together.
Play the quiz with the students. There are differentiated levels on the quiz and each student should select which level they feel most comfortable with.
There is also a differentiated homework in the workbook available.
Happy teaching and learning.
This resource uniquely looks at numbers in the 20s in French
Go through the powerpoint with the children, looking at the numbers which all start with ‘vingt-’. Re-iterate to the children that numbers which contain a ‘1’ in the units, all have the word ‘et’ in the middle of the word.
This resource also looks at expressing age and the difference between ‘tu’ or ‘vous’. The lower level looks at numbers, age and ‘tu’ or ‘vous’. The higher level looks at the years when people were born in as well as numbers, age, extended use of ‘tu’ or ‘vous’ and adjectival agreement. If there are gifted and talented learners or native French speaking learners present in the class, go through the higher level material with them. There is a differentiated quiz which follows.
After the presentation of the numbers, get the students to copy out the numbers in the attached assigned workbook and then complete the listening activity. If there is time in the lesson, get the learners to complete the subsequent activities such as filling out the speech bubbles while selecting the correct answer. For the higher level activity, assume the year is 2020 as that is when the workbook was created.
For homework, the children can complete the mathematical questions.
As a plenary, play the picture pair game with them.
I will be uploading more resources for numbers in the 30s, 40s, 50, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and 100s. Feel free to look out for them!
Happy teaching and learning!
This resource uniquely looks at numbers in the 30s in French
Go through the powerpoint with the children, looking at the numbers which all start with ‘trente-’. Re-iterate to the children that numbers which contain a ‘1’ in the units, all have the word ‘et’ in the middle of the word.
This resource also looks at expressing age and the difference between ‘tu’ or ‘vous’. The lower level looks at numbers, age and ‘tu’ or ‘vous’. The higher level looks at the years when people were born in as well as numbers, age, extended use of ‘tu’ or ‘vous’ and adjectival agreement. If there are gifted and talented learners or native French speaking learners present in the class, go through the higher level material with them.
After the presentation of the numbers, get the students to copy out the numbers in the attached assigned workbook and then complete the listening activity. If there is time in the lesson, get the learners to complete the subsequent activities such as filling out the speech bubbles while selecting the correct answer. For the higher level activity, assume the year is 2020 as that is when the workbook was created.
For homework, the children can complete the mathematical questions.
As a plenary, play the picture pair game with them.
I will be uploading more resources for numbers in the 40s, 50, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and 100s. Feel free to look out for them!
Happy teaching and learning!
Welcome to the seventh installment of months of the year, weather and seasons. This resource is geared towards learners of Key Stage 2 level and it focuses on the month of July and associated weather and season.
Present the numbers from 1-31 in French first of all and then ask the children if their birthday is in July. Ensure you tell the students that the first of the month is ‘le premier’. Ask them the question, ‘c’est quand, ton anniversaire’. Encourage them to reply ‘mon anniversaire, c’est le ____ juillet’.
Present the story and vocabulary to them. They are also available in the workbooks. The children can look at their workbooks as the story is presented on the board. If there are gifted and talented students in the class or native French speakers, present the more complex vocabulary to them which is ‘il est ensoleillé’, ‘il fait énormément chaud’, ‘le ciel est tout bleu’, etc.
Get the students to complete the classwork such as the mix and match activity and the listening activity. When completing the listening activity, be sure to alternate between the lower level and the higher level questions. Next, the students can colour in the summer picture in their workbook and then cut out the pictures and the labels from the sheet overleaf and label the colouring in sheet by sticking the correct pictures and labels together.
Play the quiz with the students. There are differentiated levels on the quiz and each student should select which level they feel most comfortable with.
Happy teaching and learning.
